Ph.D. student in the Computer Science Department at Carnegie Mellon University.  Some more information about me can be found in this brief CV (postcript or HTML).   My home country is Romania  and my first language is Romanian .

Advisor: John Anderson .

Office:  Wean  Hall 8301


Phone: (412) 268-3074

School Address: Computer Science Department  Carnegie Mellon University  5000 Forbes Ave.  Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3891

Home Address: 5559 Bartlett Str., Apt. B-3  Pittsburgh, PA 15217-1541  phone: (412) 422-7214

I am interested in natural language and psycholinguistics. My current research is concerned with computational models of sentence processing at the semantic level. I am trying to find a unified model that could account for various phenomena like metaphor comprehension, Moses illusion ("How many animals of each kind did Moses take on the ark?" -- if you fell for that and answered "two", you've just experienced the Moses illusion) and other schema-related effects. I use ACT-R   for my models.

Some of my bookmarks:
 

•  CMU SCS local home page

 
•  The HomeNet project about the social effects of using the Internet
 
• References
• The Merriam Webster Dictionary
• Encyclopedia Britannica

 
• Miscellanea
• Travel Bargains
• Easy Sabre: Flight Fares Info
• Route planner
• New York Times
• Mihai Budiu's home page

 
• In Romanian :
• Monitorul
• Dilema

Pictures

•  France:  Paris, Chartres, Versailles.
•  America:
• Pittsburgh. area
• California
• New York City
• Romania